Edward
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I love the lining on this one. Looks to be the same (type and pattern) wool that Aero use on the Waterfront models. Very tempting, though possibly a bit warm for when I'd wear it.
Question for TFL experts, if you guys don't mind; I've been looking into D-pockets from Sears, and I notice that there are a lot of design variation between the jackets. I know that as the time was going by, they simplified the design; cigarette pocket became interior pocket, removable belt got replaced with the attached half-belt, etc. but what I'm most confused about is the sleeve zippers: Early ads always depict these jackets with sleeve zippers being placed on top of the sleeves, but I've only really seen a few of these jackets with such sleeve zipper configuration - even the supposedly earliest examples have sleeve zippers placed on the back seam of the sleeve, regardless of who was making the jacket for Sears. So, I was just wondering, was this really a random thing, or was there some rule to it, as for example, do only the earliest jackets have top sleeve zippers or..?
Bretron's Sears from the classifides, back sleeve zippers:
...what appears to be the exact same model, top sleeve zippers: